Progress FUSE Selected by Sabre Holdings as Their Enterprise Standard ESB
BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 3, 2009--
Progress
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global provider of
application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate
and manage business applications, today announced that
Sabre Holdings,
whose businesses include Travelocity, Sabre Travel Network and Sabre
Airline Solutions, has selected the Progress® FUSE™ open source product
family as part of the underlying technology to ensure continuous uptime
and customer ease of use within its integration platform, known as the
Sabre Supplier-Side Gateway. The Supplier-Side Gateway leverages FUSE's
stability and standards-based approach to simplify real-time integration
with Sabre’s supplier's systems.
With a peak volume of 32,000 transactions per second on its open systems
and legacy host, Sabre wanted the flexibility of open source technology
from a strong community like the Apache Software Foundation, along with
the level of testing, support and quality of service (QoS) that
Progress’ open source products guarantee. Sabre Holdings has deployed
several solutions, including FUSE
ESB based on Apache ServiceMix, FUSE
Message Broker based on Apache ActiveMQ, and FUSE
Mediation Router based on Apache Camel. These are tested, certified
and fully supported releases of the Apache Software Foundation’s leading
service oriented architecture (SOA) open source projects.
“Our main goal at Sabre is maintaining continuous uptime and stability
and flexibility for our partners,” said Robert Wiseman, CTO at Sabre.
“When evaluating solutions, we recognized that FUSE ESB was designed at
its core to support standards that would allow for a pluggable
architecture so that our partners could continue to use their preferred
solutions. We selected Progress based on its dedication to deliver and
support industry standards-based pluggable architecture and its focus on
providing the highest quality products to meet all of its customers’
demands.”
Sabre achieves two distinct advantages with the deployment of the open
source FUSE products. First, because FUSE is open source, Sabre has
access to the source code and is protected against vendor lock-in.
Secondly, as the FUSE products strictly adhere to industry standards,
Sabre software developers have a flexible solution that can easily adapt
in a rapidly changing industry.
Each FUSE open source product is based on an open source project
developed in the Apache community. In conjunction with Progress’ own
dedication to the Apache community, in which FUSE engineers work on key
Apache SOA projects, Sabre’s developers are also actively involved in
the Apache projects and community, enhancing the deployment and use of
the FUSE line of products.
“Progress is committed to solving mission critical problems with
standards-based solutions,” said Ken Rugg, vice president and general
manager, Integration Infrastructure, Progress Software. “Sabre is able
to deploy a flexible, open source solution with FUSE while knowing that
there is an enterprise software company with a proven track record
backing the solution.”
Further information on Progress FUSE is available at the FUSE community
Web site at http://fusesource.com/.
The site also provides discussion forums, wikis, tutorials, sample
applications and documentation designed to help users at all stages of
their FUSE adoption. FUSE is one of a family of integration products
from Progress Software.
About Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) provides application
infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration and
management of business applications. Our goal is to maximize the
benefits of information technology while minimizing its complexity and
total cost of ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com
or +1-781-280-4000.
FUSE, IONA and Progress are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Progress Software Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Any
other trademarks or service marks contained herein are the property of
their respective owners.
Source: Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation
Lisa Coulouris, 781-280-4995
lcoulour@progress.com
or
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Rich Young, 617-226-8842
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